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What were the dimensions of the Harvard Mark I?
51 ft long, 2 ft deep
What is LISP short for?
List Processing Language
What organization did the US Air Force partner with in 1944 to create a flight simulator?
Servomechanisms Laboratory at MIT
What did the ALOHAnet help inspire?
Ethernet
Who created the 1968 "Mother of All Demos"?
Douglas Engelbart
On election night in November 1952, Remington Rand persuaded the TV network ____ to use a UNIVAC to predict results
CBS
IBM's science-oriented 704 had dedicated hardware that could perform ____
floating-point arithmetic
IBM marketed its Whirlwind tech from MIT as the _______ computer
IBM AN/FSQ-7
What was the updated version of Bravo that PARC created in 1975?
Gypsie
Who started BITNET?
City University of New York
Who hosted the CBS UNIVAC event?
Walter Cronkite
What was the speed difference between the fastest and slowest System/360 computer?
25 to 1
In 1957, how much venture capital funding did Ken Olson secure to create DEC?
$70,000
Who founded Fairchild Semiconductor?
Robert Noyce
What was BASIC built on?
timesharing-customized General Electric 235
When did the UNIVAC predict the election?
8:30 PM (November 1952)
Why was Hopper sent to Harvard?
to help program the Mark I
What microprocessor was patterned after the PDP-11 architecture?
Motorola 68000 microprocessor
Which 3 people proposed store and forward packet switching independently?
Leonard Kleinroc, Paul Baran, Donald Davies
How many travel agents at how many locations accessed the SABRE system?
over 1000 agents, over 50 locations
How long was the delay line in the EDVAC?
5 ft long column of mercury
How much faster could people run IBM 1401 software on a System/360 machine?
10 times faster
What would "NET = GROSS - TAX" be like in COBOL?
SUBTRACT TAX FROM GROSS-PAY GIVING NET-PAY
Where did Tim Paterson work?
Seattle Computer Products (SCP)
Who are the 4 men depicted at Whirlwind I test control in 1950?
Stephen Dodd, Jay Forrester, Robert Everett, Ramona Ferenz